What is Integrative Occupational Therapy?
Begin your journey with us
Integrative occupational therapy supports people experiencing the impact of trauma, eating-related difficulties, and challenges with weight and daily functioning. These experiences can often present simultaneously or interchangeably, influencing one another over time. Rather than separating them into isolated issues, the work takes an integrated approach, addressing them together as part of the whole person and their lived experience. Our work is evidence-based and trauma-informed, with a focus on how these experiences affect your everyday life.
Keep reading to explore more
Trauma-Focused work
Trauma-focused work supports you in understanding how your experiences may be affecting you psychologically, biologically, emotionally, and in your everyday life. This includes exploring patterns of disconnection, changes in energy levels, and challenges with safety, routines, and daily roles.
Integrative occupational therapy can support you with:
building emotional resilience and improving emotional regulation
understanding and working with your coping mechanisms and patterns of avoidance
reconnecting with the mind–body connection and responding to internal signals more effectively
developing sustainable routines, habits, and self-care practices
strengthening attention, focus, and ability to complete everyday tasks
rebuilding a sense of safety, confidence, and engagement in social and public environments
understanding and navigating occupational roles, boundaries, and relationships
gradually re-engaging in meaningful activities and daily life
Sustainable Weight Management Work
Sustainable weight management is approached through long-term, realistic change rather than short-term solutions, whether the goal is to gain, reduce, or maintain weight, including for those using or considering weight loss medication. This includes:
developing sustainable habits and routines that support consistency
adapting environments to make healthier choices more accessible
creating balance across daily life, including activity, rest, work, and leisure
breaking down tasks such as meal planning, shopping, and exercise into manageable steps
developing a deeper understanding of the nutritional needs of your body and mind, and adaptable ways to meet them
increasing engagement in meaningful activities to support motivation and quality of life
building stamina through pacing and energy conservation
Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Work
Support for eating disorders and disordered eating focuses on rebuilding a more stable and sustainable relationship with food, body, and daily habits, while addressing underlying factors that may be maintaining these patterns. This work may include:
meal management and gradual exposure to reduce anxiety around food, shopping, and eating
restoring routine and structure to reduce isolation and disrupt patterns that maintain the eating disorder
exploring sensory sensitivities and developing body awareness
building coping strategies to manage stress, perfectionism, and emotional difficulties
supporting return to work, education, and social participation
